Cocke County Millennials

10/13/2026

Seems appropriate to post this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoXyqq9bD6A

just above William Haynes’ post:
(https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/business/medicare-private-health-care-costs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share)

"Justice for Sale" most prominently refers to the landmark 1999 PBS...

08/13/2026

Prepared Is Powerful
Episode 15 -- Technology: Make It Your Friend, Not Your Master

You will not escape technology.

You will not outvote it. You will not outpace it. You will not ignore it.

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Technology will shape your career, your relationships, your information intake, and your opportunities.

The question is not:

“Is technology good or bad?”

The question is:.....

Episode 15 -- Technology: Make It Your Friend, Not Your Master

07/18/2026

Pay attention, folks.

Organizers from Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Arizona share strategies for resisting data centers in other communities.

07/17/2026

At 3:30 this afternoon, my wife and I walked into the Election Commission in Dandridge to vote. For the moment, we were the only two voters through the door. Three or four others followed. There was no line, no crowd, no visible urgency.

It was only one moment in one place, and it would be irresponsible to call it evidence of turnout. But it felt symbolic.

Tennessee is choosing its next leaders at a time when wages, housing, healthcare, education, energy and environmental pressures are intensifying. Yet the political system offers voters candidates who speak fluently about growth, business and cultural conflict—and far less clearly about the lives people are actually living.

Perhaps the room was quiet because people were busy. Perhaps they had already voted.

Or perhaps too many Tennesseans have concluded that, whichever pea wins, the pod remains the same.

07/15/2026

A report came out: Tennessee is the worst state for Quality of Life.

State Senator Jack Johnson (Williamson County) disagrees.

The only time I encountered SENATOR JACK JOHNSON was when I addressed his committee advocating for a bill to let municipal electric utilities (in our case, Morristown) to connect their internet (FiberNet) to ours. I made the case on behalf of the 30% of Jefferson County students whose homes were not connected.

I played a clip from Without a Net -- The Digital Divide in America, in which students spoke about what internet access meant to them
(watch this clip, 56 seconds: ttps://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/265svi56qff1s31kmude7/1-Without-A-Net-The-Digital-Divide-In-America-Official-Trailer.mp4?rlkey=14x2lds6lv3a4cplapvfyrbjw&dl=0)

Things you should know about this: Morristown's FibreNet at the time (2014) had some 6,000 customers but it had the capacity to serve 400,000. It was profitable and paid $1,000,000 to Morristown in lieu of taxes. The other six utilities including Chattanooga were all profitable.

All we wanted across the state was to hook up -- at no cost to taxpayers. Our Senator Frank Niceley spoke on behalf of the bill, and voted for it. The vote failed 3-4 with the tie breaking vote from COMMITTEE CHAIR SENATOR JACK JOHNSON. He represents Williamson County, where the median household income was well over $100,000. The median household income in Jefferson County was less. He was disingenuous then. He is disingenuous now.

TN Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson is pushing back against a CNBC ranking that placed Tennessee last among states for quality of life.

01/07/2026

The Danger I live with, and maybe you do, too.

No Greenlander ever shut down my hospital.
No Canadian ever cut my wages.
No Venezuelan ever priced my kids out of housing.

The danger I live with wears a suit
and speaks my language.

09/16/2025

And. university professors can be censored at University of Tennessee.

Urgent Call for Precautionary Action on RF Exposure. Follow-Up Letter to Sefton Council sent to All Councillors on 15th September 2025

The EM Radiation Research Trust questions about cancer risks from RF radiation were dismissed with generic assurances at the Sefton Council meeting on 11th September 2025. We have now sent a strong follow-up letter calling for action to protect residents especially children, hospital patients, cancer victims, AIMD users, and other vulnerable groups.

Read our latest follow-up letter to Sefton Council sent on 15th September 2025: https://radiationresearch.org/protect-residents-from-wireless-radiation-hazards/

Read our report on last week’s meeting: https://radiationresearch.org/sefton-council-faces-urgent-questions-on-5g-and-cancer-risk/

This is not new. A year ago, in September 2024, we delivered questions highlighting that ICNIRP guidelines do not protect people with metal implants, children, or those suffering from Electrohypersensitivity (EHS) and yet here we are again, one year later. When will they listen and take action? How long must we wait?

Read the 2024 questions here: https://radiationresearch.org/5g-supplementary-question-for-sefton-council-public-meeting-12th-september-2024/

💔 As Hardell & Carlberg state (Page 14/15):
"There were missed opportunities for cancer prevention exemplified by asbestos, to***co, certain pesticides and now RF radiation. No doubt economic considerations are favored instead of cancer prevention. The cancer victim is the loser in terms of suffering, life quality and shorter life expectancy. Also, the life for the next-of-kin is affected. A strategy to sow doubt on cancer risks was established decades ago and is now adopted and implemented in more sophisticated way by the telecom industry regarding RF-EMF risks to human beings and the environment. Industry has the economic power, access to politicians and media whereas concerned people are unheard." Source:https://ec.europa.eu/health/scientific_committees/scheer/docs/emf2022/Butler_Submission.pdf

Everyone deserves to live in safety, free from preventable risks cancer, medical implant interference, EHS, and more yet our concerns are still ignored.

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08/11/2025

Project 2025 proposed to eliminate the 60-year-old program on the grounds it’s ineffective and unsafe. The research tells a different story.

06/16/2025

A newsletter for big-picture thinking about autocracy and threats to democracy around the world

06/16/2025